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The Ten Commandments
A Man recounts the decalogue to Her Pinkness, the Invisible Pink Unicorn
I originally wrote this many years ago, so many that I have forgotten where. I wrote other tales about the Invisible Pink Unicorn then, but seem not to have copies of them.Sigh… This one was picked up a few times and republished elsewhere, which is how I was able to find it again.
The IPU shook her mane and stamped her feet impatiently. Her Holy Nostrils flared.
“Anything else?”she inquired of the Man who stood quivering in front of her.
“Um…” The Man was obviously nervous. He was not enjoying this conversation, and the IPU’s growing impatience was not helping. “Um, yes, we are, um, not…” The Man paused and then continued in a rush, “not supposed to covet our neighbour’s wife!”
The IPU snorted loudly. “That’s rich!” she bellowed. “Now THAT ought to be an easy one for you insatiable little monkey spawn. I’ll just bet!”, she chortled.
The Man shuffled his feet and stared at the ground. A small slug was crawling slowly through the leaves at his feet. The Man wished he himself could crawl off somewhere else.
But the IPU was not finished with her interrogation. “You have missed one. I believe you said there were ten commandments, and you have only told…
